ecology

These episodes of the PBS Nature show would be great places to start.

Browse through the various articles for ideas for your report.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/deepjungle/

Try the National Geographic web site.. http://www.nationalgeographic.com Heck, try a google search with the parameters of your search (I yielded a few things from that).

Australian Eucalyptus response to fire might be interesting for a more detailed study.

Great book called "Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare" -- or something very close to that.

If'n you cotton to the old-fashioned paper interface, it's not very long, written in plain English, and will give you a very good feel for the science of ecology.
















Ya prolly won't read it, tho...

ur verrrrryyyyyyy great ppl

if u have any more info it would be great.

i will go through all the links, books and clips u gave me and take info from there but more ifo will be great.

ur verrrrryyyyyyy great ppl

if u have any more info it would be great.

i will go through all the links, books and clips u gave me and take info from there but more info will be great.

what did u write Sturgis.

im finding nothing that makes sense

or can u send me some links pls.

10x all

Okay, let's redefine the topic. You ask for articles about "ecological strategies of specialized species." What does that phrase mean to you?

To me, it means methods in which species have adapted their survival techniques in a symbiotic dependency upon one another. For instance, there is a certain butterfly in the jungle shown on that PBS website, that has an extremely long tongue which it uses to drink nectar from a rare tree with extremely long blossoms. The butterfly helps pollinate the tree and in return and has very little competition for the nectar among insects not able to reach into the length of the blossom. If either species were removed, the other would suffer greatly.

If that is not the premise of the topic, then you need to be more specific in detail for what you seek.

I posted the National Geographic link... http://www.nationalgeographic.com and also recommended that you go to Google at http://www.google.com and then put in the information (parameters) of your search. Type in the words which are a description of what you desire to have more information on. "Ecological strategies of specialized species"

Here are a couple more websites to check out:

http://science.howstuffworks.com/rainforest.htm

http://necsi.org/projects/evolution/co-evolution/symbiosis/co-evolution_symbiosis.html

10x ppl
these are great help.

i will name u in my referance LOL

anymore help is appriciated but i already adore what u had done with me so far

dont use "......" parenthesis around your search parameters. there is some good stuff but you "really have to read it" all.

hi ppl
it me agian
i started my assignment and im finding a problem.

i found a lot of info but i cant find examples of specialised species for cetain things.
can someone give me a link or something which tell what is specialist or not.

It's there in the links I already gave you. Perhaps I'm not understanding your terminology.

How about if you explain what you mean by "specialized species?"

Specialized in what way?

If you're thinking about highly specialized adaptations, what about the anteater's snout (which has evolved a couple of times through convergent evolution), the woodpecker's head (I seem to remember there's something special about their skull that keeps them from damaging their brains with all that hammering), the long middle finger that aye-ayes use to tap on logs and find grubs underneath (and then to dig them out), echolocation in bats, the rumen of a cow (just a big fermentation vat, really), etc. etc. etc.

As far as animals go, most things that seem weird are probably adaptations to a specialized existence. Though I'm not sure specialization is the best word -- or if I'm even understanding what you're asking.

Extra points for details, by the way. They show the teacher you're not just asking people and writing down what they say.

speciliced species means that he only lives in one type of climate and eat a little variety of food. like pandas and koalas but i dont know any more.

i would like to know some of these species to make reference and examples to them.

Internal parasites. Tapeworms, roundworms, pinworms, flukes... Most parasitic species are highly adapted to a single host, or maybe two hosts, with a life stage specifically adapted to each one.

Here, check out this page...

http://classes.seattleu.edu/biology/biol235/hodin/nematodePriapulidGroup/nematodes/parasite.htm

Honestly, parasites are fascinating, and they're highly specialized. And, since every free living animal has mutliple species that parasitize it, it's probable that there are more animal species that are parasites than are free-living.

Interestingly enough many highly specialised species risk extinction because of their specialisation. perhaps thats the wrong way of saying it. humans interfere with habitat dependant fauna. Less specialised animals tend to survive habitat destruction. look also at pest animals. when imported into a habitat the allows establishment, pest animals take advantage.

You're right, dadpad. The Canadian gray wolf in the northern Rockies is an excellent example of how that works!